WORDS USED TO CONFUSE
AMERICANS – POPULIST, LIBERALISM, DEMOCRACY, PROGRESSIVE, AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE

by Dr. Lawrence Wilson

Ó February 2013, L.D. Wilson Consultants, Inc.

POPULIST

This
word, used in the 2012 elections in America by the Democrats, is a code word or
substitute word for socialism and communism.Please know that this is the truth.It has nothing to do with what is
“popular” or good for the people.It is just a remake of socialism and communism, big government, the
welfare state and suppression of individual rights that has been pushed by
certain groups for several hundred years.Those who propose socialism and communism know that they must use
different words to describe their agenda, and populist is one of the best
available.It has been used in the
past, as well.

LIBERALISM

The meaning
of the word liberalism has been altered deliberately and today is most
confusing.Let us examine this.

Classical liberalism was the name
given to the system of government and economics present in the early United
States of America.Today, however,
the word liberalism means the exact opposite – namely a large, powerful
central government that controls most aspects of people’s lives.Other words for it include
dictatorship, socialism, communism, Nazism (or national socialism) and
progressivism.

CLASSICAL
LIBERALISM

From 1776 to
about 1900, the word liberalism in politics meant:

ŠA small, and
therefore accountable government.Itspowers and
responsibilities were strictly limited by the federal Constitution and the Bill
of Rights, which are the first 10 Amendments to the federal Constitution.The US Constitution clearly spells out
the roles of the federal government, as opposed to the roles of the state and
the local governments of the United States of America.It also spells out those powers and
responsibilities that are left up to the people.The roles of the government are strictly and clearly limited
in the Constitution so that the people can go about their lives in a way that
is undisturbed by intrusive regulations, unnecessary taxes, and other
impediments to human development.The
government’s role was mainly similar to that of a referee in a sports event, not a controller or ruler over men.Unfortunately, the Supreme Court and
other courts of the United States have been corrupted by both ignorance, the
necessities of war, and dishonest and corrupt presidents and legislators so that
the Court does not understand or does not care about upholding the
Constitution, as it was written and intended.Many of the justices of the Supreme Court even hate the
Constitution, thinking it is just an impediment to their power and the power of
a “benign” government, as they see it.However, there is no “benign” government, as George Washington and the
other founders knew well.Mr.
Washington called government “a necessary evil”.That is much closer to the truth.They said “government is force from a gun”.That is not benign and cannot ever be
benign.It is needed, at times
more than at other times, but it is not benign and must be reigned in and
strictly monitored and controlled by the people or it will slowly steal the
people’s liberties and rights.This is exactly what has happened in America.Sadly, in most of the world, the people have never had a
chance for freedom and liberty in the same way as Americans were given.Their rights were never secured by a
Constitution like ours.The
constitutions of other nations, such as Russia, Cuba, and even European
democracies, are nothing like ours.Power rests with the parliament or the legislature, not the people.Even if the constitution of these nations
says the power belongs to the people, they do not enforce it and it is
basically a fake and a sham.

ŠEnforcing
and protecting the rights of the people.The
main role of the government was to enforce and protect the natural rights of each individual
citizen – men, women and children alike.It was not to decide among groups of people who gets special
rights and privileges such as women’s rights, gay rights, and so on.This is a very modern concept that is
quite foreign to our founder’s concept of justice and the proper role of
government.The
founders realized that some people would always be discriminated against due to
their race, color, creed, beliefs, even superficial qualities like one’s size
or weight.However, they chose not
to legislate equality in these areas because it is very cumbersome, such
discrimination is very hard to prove in many cases, and it is not helpful
because a myriad of laws leads to many lawsuits.Also, it engenders resentment, as occurs today, when, for
example, black people are given special privileges just due to the color of
their skin.The black individuals
often do not appreciate it, as they would really like to be judged on their
merits and their actions, rather than by the entirely superficial fact of their
skin color.Many
problems are caused by the group rights laws such as gay rights, black rights,
Hispanic rights, women’s rights and so on.For example, what if a person is half black and half white,
as our president is?How can this
be handled?What if the person is
one-eighth Hispanic, or if the person is bisexual.These laws often effectively discriminate against those who
are not in a favored group, so they are a form of reverse discrimination and
tyranny.It becomes very
complicated.One of the principles
of laws is they should be simple, clear and direct.Group rights laws are anything but direct and clear for a
number of reasons.Hate crimes.Today, group rights have spawned a new class of basically
“thought crimes” that are called hate crime laws.These laws make it a worse crime if a person was feeling
hateful toward a person of another faith or color, for example.Such laws, related to group rights,
greatly complicate the legal process today as it is hard to figure out the
thoughts of a person who commits a crime.The problem is getting worse as more of these laws are passed by legislators
who do not realize the harm they do with these laws.

ŠThe economic sphere.In
classical liberalism, the economic sphere was to be left mainly to the
individual.This system is
sometimes called the free enterprise system,
capitalist economic system or laissez faire.The latter is a French word that means “left alone” or “left
to their own devices”. Laissez faire is the opposite of the socialist or
communist system, in which the government either owns many businesses, or
controls them indirectly through massive regulations and laws governing every
aspect of conducting a business.The
free enterprise system has been shown to be at least twice as efficient and far
more creative than government-owned businesses.This has been shown in many controlled studies.Here are some reasons why this is so:

1)
Competition and freedom to fail.Private businesses that do a poor job go out of business as they cannot
compete.Government businesses
such as the US Postal Service just keep losing money, but stay in business.

2)
Freedom to work very hard for a future reward.Money is not an ideal reward, but it causes entepreneurs to work very hard in business, much harder
than 9-5 employees who must follow government and union work rules, and have no
hope of financial reward for their efforts.

3)
Freedom to run your own operation, rather than be simply a cog in the
government machine.Smart people
like to be in charge of their own work and the free enterprise system allows
this.

4) Freedom to hire and fire employees to create the
ideal workforce for a business without lots of regulations.This is very important, since each
business has unique needs.Only by
trying out people and letting some go can any business find the right people
for the job.This is often
impossible in government jobs due to union rules, work contracts, etc.

5) Freedom to innovate and change at will.Small, private firms are not beholden
to politicians and taxpayers.They
are free to do as they will, governed only by their ingenuity and ability to
raise money privately.Thus they
can change and alter course far more easily in most cases.

6) Much
less political.Private
individuals and companies are not controlled by Congress and other political
bodies.These bodies often
manipulate and use government agencies and research institutes for their own
political purposes, and in so doing subvert the stated goals and aims of the
agency.This is almost standard
procedure and it often gets in the way of the efficiency and ability to operate
of government businesses.I will
give a simple example.A car
company should be in business to build the best cars possible.However, a government-owned car company
may have all sorts of secondary aims such as making the current administration
look good, employing loads of people, even if they are not needed and get in
the way, or promoting other political agendas such as rewarding those who gave
a lot of money to the current rulers of the nation.As a result, the government car companies and most nations
do not produce good cars at a good price.As a result of all the above, government enterprises are always less
efficient, less creative, slower to innovate and often do a very poor job.

With classical liberalism, the government’s main
role in the economic sphere was to conduct trials if a business engaged in
theft, breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation or other similar
crimes.In other words, once again
the main role of government was to act like a referee in a baseball game who
assures that the rules are followed and that offenders are punished and perhaps
removed from the game if they cannot play by the rules of honesty and integrity
in their business dealings.However,
starting in the early 20th century, the US government began to
engage in massive regulation of businesses for various reasons.Today things are much worse as the
government now literally owns businesses such as Amtrak ( a large railroad) and
General Motors.These companies
lose money and waste taxpayer dollars. The commerce clause.Nowhere does the US Constitution allow
the federal government to run businesses, or even to heavily regulate business
activity.Such action is usually
justified by the “commerce clause” of the US Constitution.This clause states that the government
shall promote commerce between the states.However, the original intent of the clause has been totally
perverted.It was inserted in the
Constitution because there arose a problem when one state did not allow goods
to pass from another state into its borders and imposed taxes on those
goods.The “commerce clause” was
designed to stop these practices so that goods could flow easily from state to
state.Never was it intended that
the government could impose all sorts of regulations on commerce.This needs to be returned to its
original meaning, which was crystal clear to the founders of America.However, certain forces have wanted an empire,
not a republic, and they have changed the law in this direction.

ŠThe spheres
of education, health care and welfare.Withclassical liberalism,
these areas of life were also left to the states, and mainly up to individuals
and groups such as charities, churches, civic organizations like the Rotary and
Lions Clubs, community health associations, community hospitals, veterans
groups and hundreds of other organizations that used to take care of the needs
and wants of the poor, the infirm, the mentally ill, the elderly, widows,
orphans and others in society who cannot take care of themselves.This
is a critical function in any modern society.How it is handled is a reflection of the humanity of the
society.Americans have always
been among the most generous people in the world.This is not a guess.It is the fact, and remains so today.Still today, anyone, anywhere in the world that wishes to
raise money for a cause often comes to America.It is not that Americans are wealthier, although they were
in the past.It is that Americans
are more generous and think of others and are willing to give of their time,
money and energy for good causes, of which the welfare of the poor and infirm
is one.The coming of social security and
government welfare.The slow
death of private welfare and the private insurance industry began under
Franklin Roosevelt in 1934.In
that year, the federal government imposed mandatory old age insurance run by
the federal government.It was
called social security.In essence, the government set up its
own old age insurance company.However, unlike private insurance companies, the government forced their
‘policy’ upon the American people, whether or not the individual wanted
it.Not only that, but there was
no negotiable contract given to each person and there was no competition or
choice allowed.Also, the policy
comes with no guarantee of payout later on, as one gets with private insurance
policies.This
was blatantly illegal, but when it was challenged, Franklin Roosevelt “packed”
the Supreme Court with his own people.This means he added more members to the Supreme Court with his own
supporters.They were thus able to
override constitutional prohibitions against forcing people to buy a product
against their will, and other constitutional prohibitions against such schemes.Social
security is a horrible failure.Not only does it not pay out enough for real welfare, but it is totally
bankrupt today.It is such a mess
that American politicians of both parties have been terrified to really address
the problem.Early on, the Social
Security fund, which was to be a sacred insurance fund to be used to the
welfare of the people, was “raided” by the Congress when they needed money for
other things.As a result, there
is no fund today.It is just a
pile of “I owe you’s”.This must be addressed soon, as the problem is worsening
every day.One
problem is that when the system was established, the average lifespan in
America was about 65.Social
Security was intended only as an emergency system for those that exceeded that
age.Today the lifespan is about
80, so they system is paying out millions of dollars to people who could be
working.Just raising the age of
qualification would solve the crisis, at least for a while.No one, however, is willing to touch
the issue, however, so far.We
will see if any brave politicians emerge, as this is a critical problem.The
founders of America realized that government welfare, government health care,
and government “charity” is problematic.Among its problems are extreme waste, fraud, abuse, inefficiency,
perverse incentives to waste money, downright foolishness motivated by
politics, and perhaps other problems.These are clearly occurring today in America and around the world.They are one reason that the nations of
Europe, for example, are going broke.These nations simply cannot pay all their obligations, many of which are
foolish and politically motivated.This means that politicians reward their friends and punish their
enemies.It also means that fraud
in government programs is so easy to get away with, that it multiplies and
there really is no way to stop it.Private versus public welfare.Welfare has to do with the redistribution of wealth.A key difference between private
welfare and private redistribution of wealth versus government or public
welfare and government or public redistribution of wealth is that the private
system is voluntary.This means it respects the right of
every person to be as generous or as stingy as he or she wants.This is non-violent and encourages
virtues such as charity and caring about others.When the government is in charge of welfare, health care,
education and other things, the system is forced
or mandatory.This means that
money is confiscated from the people by force through taxes.This is inherently violent, encourages
lying and cheating, and does not encourage charity and caring for others.Other problems with government
redistribution of wealth is that politicians tend to reward their friends, and
not necessarily those in need.This is basically corruption and fraud. Private charities, by contrast, must do their jobs well and
efficiently.If they do not, they
will usually stop receiving donations and will go out of business.This acts on a check of private
charities that keeps them fairly honest, unlike government “charities” like
social security, Medicare, Medicaid and hundreds of other government welfare
programs in most nations.

ŠPrivate
banking versus government-controlled banking. Banking was another important business
that the government of the United states was not to engage in, according to the
US Constitution.Gold and silver
were to be the only legal money in America.The founders knew well that if the government were given the
right to print paper money, it would abuse it by printing too much, causing
inflation and basically stealing the wealth of the people.Gold and silver as the only legal
tender prevented this, for the most part.Private
companies quickly sprang up in America to handle the people’s banking, credit
and lending needs.While there
were periods in which America had a central bank, the system of private banking
only worked quite well in America throughout the 1800s.This
all changed in 1913 with the passage of another thoroughly unconstitutional law
called the Federal Reserve Act.It
established a national bank called the Federal Reserve that would be in charge
of all the banks in America and would regulate all of them under one system.This put an end to free banking in
America as the government took over control of banking, essentially.The system was foisted on the people
supposedly to prevent recessions and depressions.Yet by far the worst depression occurred soon afterwards in
1929.To give you an idea of how
miserable a failure the central bank has been, a dollar in 1900 is now worth
about 1 penny.This means that the
people’s money has been essentially stolen from them to this degree.The Federal Reserve is a complete
deception.It is not federal,
there is no reserve, and it directly caused the great depression of 1929 and
the economic woes we have today.This sad story is discussed in books such as The Creature From Jekyll Island
by G. Edward Griffin, and in a very short form in an article on this website
called Introduction To Banking.

ŠOther roles of the federal government.With classical liberalism, the federal or national government is to be
concerned with relatively few items that the states and the people cannot do
well on their own.These include
declaring war and making peace, negotiating treaties with foreign nations,
raising armies, carrying the mail, setting up a federal court system, and a few
others – and that is all.This was intended to keep the federal government small and accountable
to the people and to the states.

The
fruits of classical liberalism. Until after the Civil War, and even up
until about the turn of the 20th century, the classical liberal
system of government functioned incredibly well.This does not mean there were no problems.But it means that there was an amazing
flourishing of creativity, prosperity, wealth of the common man, and growth of
the American nation in many ways, in the sciences, the arts, invention, and
more.Nothing like it has ever
occurred in modern times.

The
seeds of destruction.This success
did not sit well with everyone.In
particular, a small group of European bankers were not happy at all.They controlled the nations of Europe,
essentially, who were always at war with each other, and therefore needed to
borrow money with interest from the bankers.This suited the bankers very well, as they used their
monetary power to control even the kings and queens of Europe.

America was
becoming independently wealthy and therefore out of their control.There is clear evidence that the
European bankers did not like this, and in fact incited the War of 1812 and the
American Civil War in order to weaken and hopefully destroy America’s growing
wealth and power.These efforts
failed, thanks largely to the stamina of Abraham Lincoln and the efforts of the
North and even the South to reconcile their differences.The bankers hoped America would be
split in two, which would not have lasted, but would have slowed the growth of
the nation.Instead, the war
really accelerated industrialization, particularly in the North, and so the
bankers realized that the “divide and conquer” strategy had not worked.

Now they
embarked on a new strategy to weaken America.It was to restrict the freedoms and liberties of her mighty
people.This strategy has worked
all too well, sadly.It has worked
only because Americans do not realize their heritage, the sacredness of their
founding documents, and the wisdom of her founders.This was the plan, of course, carried out by the public or
government schools to miseducate the American
children.It
was mass propaganda on a scale never before attempted and it has worked all too
well.The founders of America have
been largely discredited as rich, old, white, non-Christian or at least
non-believing, slave owners.In
reality, a very few owned slaves and most of them were very poor, indeed, as
they were farmers and colonists in a new land.Most were devoutly religious, and most were not old since
the average lifespan was about 60.

Also, they
were not all white-skinned.They
included free African-Americans, many racial groups from Europe, and those of
all religions.All participated in
the early meetings that led to the Declaration of Independence and the US
Constitution, which stand today as the greatest documents in modern times.A great nation always is made up of all
the races of men, and all the religions – at least all that tolerate
others.Islam is not among these,
sadly.

To return to
our theme, the bankers were furious that they could not stop the rise of
America.They embarked on a
program to discredit the founders of America, to discredit and destroy
Christianity, which had inspired them, and to destroy the morals and brainpower
of the people.This they have
succeeded in doing only too well, and with it we see the decline of American
power, wealth and positive influence around the world.

To some,
this is good.To many, it is
disheartening as America is the last great hope of the world.American exceptionalism,
as it is called, is the truth.America is different, even though the current president of the United
States does not see it, and indeed is ashamed of it.Shame on him, as he throws away his heritage as an American
as someone would throw away a gold bracelet or a diamond ring, ashamed of his
wealth, his heritage, and his power to influence others for good.This is the sad state of America, and
it is exactly how the European bankers want things.That way they are in control.

Liberalism.One way the bankers and others have
operated was to deceive the people through words.That is the theme of this article.They changed the meaning of words to confuse the
people.One of those words is liberalism.It meant freedom, free enterprise and a small government
restrained by the Constitution.So
they changed the textbooks and wrote scholarly articles and popular pieces in
newspapers in which they used the word liberalism to describe dictatorship,
communism and socialism – the exact opposite of its original
meaning.Make no mistake about it.
The words liberal and liberalism
mean the exact opposite of their original meaning before around 1900.These words now refer to a large,
powerful central government, and often are code words for communism, Nazism and
socialism.

WHAT
IS A MODERN “LIBERAL”?

Here are
just a few characteristics of modern liberals, as I have observed them for
years and listened to others who also have observed them carefully:

1.
Elitists.They do not like the common man, you
and me, and believe that they know better how to run the country, decide its
policies, etc.

2.
Negative.They are often doom-and-gloom
types.Just observe many
environmentalists, for example.Statistics do not support their gloomy predictions.History illustrates that the same
people were predicting disaster 50 years ago – overpopulation so that we
would all starve, death from pollution that has not occurred, global warming,
global cooling, death of all trees on the planet, and so on.Today there are more trees than there
were 100 years ago because replanting has occurred.Many such examples could be cited.

3.
Often far more interested in feelings than in facts.Often liberals embrace ideas that sound
and/or “feel good”, even though they make no logical sense.For example, studies repeatedly show
that the private sector can do most jobs such as run the schools, health care
and other businesses far more efficiently and honestly than can the
government.Yet liberals persist
in the belief that it would be nice for the government to run health care,
welfare, education and even corporations such as car companies.

4.
Much more interested in narrative, than in true discussion.By the word narrative I mean that they
believe if they talk about something enough, like global warming, they can
solve the problem.Facts don’t
matter as much as thinking about what you would like and discussing it with
your friends.This is a curious
mental phenomenon that is essentially wishful thinking.Wish it enough and it will occur.

5.
No absolute truths.This means the
Ten Commandments and the US Constitution must be relegated to the trash heap,
and be replaced with what is called moral
relativism.This is a very
dangerous doctrine that basically says that whatever a person “feels” is right,
is the truth for that person.Technically, it means that if you feel it is right to harm or even kill
another, then it is probably okay because you probably have a “reason” that
explains your behavior.Maybe that
person’s race killed people in your race, or oppressed your parents or your
friends in some way.Sadly, these
ideas have found our way into our laws to a degree.

6.
Against cruelty. Many liberals are against things, and the one they usually
pick is cruelty.For instance,
capitalism and free markets are considered cruel because some accumulate more
wealth than others and some work harder than others.So they advocate a welfare state to even out the
differences.However, this always
causes severe corruption and laziness, and other problems like bankruptcy of an
entire nation, as is occurring now in Europe.This is also an interesting psychological trait, since their
actions are often quite cruel.This they are ready to excuse, however.

7.
America is not an exceptional nation.The president has said as much many times, and is actually embarrassed
by America, at times.Yet the
facts show that America has been a bulwark of hope, liberty, military
resistance to tyranny, and much more for the entire world for over 100 years,
at least.

PROGRESSIVE
AND PROGRESSIVISM

A related
word to liberalism that basically means the same thing today is
progressivism.The words
progressive and progressivism used to mean simply forward-looking or moving
forward instead of backwards.

However,
after the Civil War, the propaganda experts discussed above needed to deceive
people with words.They came up
with the idea to use a word that means to forge ahead, and to twist its meaning
so that today it means to move in the exact opposite way. The
words progressive and progressivism were adopted by the communists, Marxists
and socialists to mean an evolutionary process that would move society away
from freedom and liberty, and move society toward dictatorship, Marxism,
Leninism, socialism and communism.

This is
critical to understand, because progressive and progressivism no longer means
moving forward.They mean moving
backward, back toward a dictatorship and away from liberty and individual
rights.

The intent
of brainwashing is always to confuse, deceive and reverse the flow of energy in
a human being, and the use of words to do this is a common tactic.It is like calling something that is
black, white, and calling the word yes, no and so on.It is completely confusing to a logical mind and it sets up
a cognitive dissonance, as it is called, that the person literally cannot
escape from without a complete explanation like the one above.This is the essence of brain washing,
and that is what has been done to Americans more than to any other people on
earth.When force did not work,
brainwashing was the only other alternative to slow down the mightiest nation
on earth.This is the truth, not
some patriotic rambling.

SOCIALISM,
COMMUNISM, MARXISM, NAZISM (NATIONAL SOCIALISM) AND PROGRESSIVISM ARE NOT ALL
BAD, JUST MISGUIDED

The
governing idea behind socialism and the other isms above is that mankind is
best governed by a powerful central government that knows best how the people
should live their lives to promote peace, commerce and spiritual
development.This is not a bad
idea.It is just incorrect at this
time.At least, no nation that has
tried it, and many have over the years, has succeeded or even come close to the
success of the idea of limited government restrained by a constitution that
guarantees individual rights.

The idea
behind socialism and communism is that the role of government should not be
mainly to protect individual rights.These are seen as secondary to the community or social fabric of
society.If some are made to
suffer imprisonment or even death for the “cause of society” then so be
it.Much more important, they say,
is the welfare of the community.

Bureaucracy.Again, this sounds plausible.The trouble is – Who is to say what is best for the
community if it not individuals? The answer in all these nations is the central committee, the
parliament, the dictator or the bureaucrats who run the government.Bureaucrats are people who are quite
ordinary who take government jobs, just like you would take a job to make money
and little else.In other words,
they are not the brightest and most hard-working and caring people.They are just ordinary folks who happen
to end up in positions of power.They are the main problem in all socialist, communist, progressive,
Marxist nations.They are simply
not smart enough and don’t care enough to run the nation, but they are given
that task.As a result, they
become corrupt, lazy, callous, and often downright mean and nasty.But since they run the show, so to
speak, there is nothing anyone can do about it.They can be replaced, but the replacements are just as bad.

One of the
worst problems of bureaucracy is that once installed in their jobs, they are
hard to unseat.Unions are a big
force in this problem.Unlike a
private company that fires workers who are less productive or less needed even
if they are productive, government workers are usually immune to this problem
because of their contracts.This
was part of the plan as well.

Another
problem is that bureaucrats tend to vote for more government jobs, as this
helps secure their future.If
there are too many of them, they vote to bankrupt the nation just out of
self-interest.In others words,
they vote to raise taxes on the companies and corporate world to pay for their
jobs.This is simple
self-interest, and not evil.It is
just the fact.This is why schools
are more expensive today, why colleges are more costly, in part, and so
on.Those who run them spend a lot
of money campaigning and lobbying the government for even more money for
themselves.People complain about
the lobbying efforts of the big corporations, which is a lot.However, they forget about the massive
lobbying efforts of the government bureaucrats, and their unions, which is even
more, though much is hidden in various gifts, and other “educational”
efforts.For example, SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, gave the
president some $70 million dollars or so.This would be totally illegal to come from one person or group, but it
was stretched out among thousands of union members, although the members are
often not consulted.The leaders
make the decisions.

When asked
about the health care legislation of 2010, the head of that union, Andy Stern,
said it was nothing more than a “return on his investment”.In other words, the union invested in
the Democrats and they got their bill.They couldn’t care less about the consequences for America.

Unions. Today, some
bureaucracies around the world are unionized, which makes it even harder to get
rid of the incompetent, corrupt or stupid people who run the large government
agencies.They are just shifted
around or paid not to work, which bankrupts the system eventually, as is
happening in Europe today.

This applies
to the American public or rather government education system, in
particular.Through the unions has
come the propaganda that has changed the school books and the practices,
removed prayer and religion from the schools, although it was the goal of education
in the founding of the nation, and harmed the children in thousands of ways to
the point that now I don’t recommend public schooling for anyone.

Colleges
and universities are even worse.They are not unionized, but they all use the tenure system, which is
just as bad or worse.That is,
once a professor has been there for a while, he cannot be easily fired even if
he is incompetent.This was also
instigated as a propaganda methods, as young minds are very vulnerable to lies
and twisting the truth because youth is restless and idealistic and often
rebellious against authority, even when it is good authority.So these traits were and are exploited
every day in the high schools and particularly in the colleges and universities
of America.

All this is
not by accident, in other words.It has been orchestrated.I
know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but books exist that explain it with
the documentation.One of the best
concerning the money in America, a very serious issue, is The Creature From Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin.

Redistributing
the wealth.In a classical
liberal society that values free enterprise, the people who are most
industrious, most hard-working, most creative and smartest, often make the most
money.This was the case in
America.This is not exactly fair,
as some are born with more natural talents than others.However, it serves society well because
it rewards effort.That is an
important point we will return to.

The
progressive, socialist, Marxist and communist model rewards the opposite.It rewards those who are parasite,
basically – the bureaucrats and their masters – while it takes away
the money from the productive members of society.This is a very important point because our president
continuously talks of redistributing the wealth from the evil rich people to
the downtrodden.This is almost
all propaganda.It has been used
for years to justify stealing the wealth of the productive people and giving it
mainly to the friends of the government leaders, who then use it to elect more
of their friends.This sounds
simplistic, and it is.But
overall, it is the plan and it is working well.They throw a few crumbs to the old people, the blacks, the
Hispanics and so on, but they keep most of the money they confiscate from the
wealthy for themselves and their favored foundations and causes such as radical
environmentalism, another word and cause that has been hijacked today.

So one
aspect of communism and the other isms is actually redistributing wealth through
high taxes and other means from the less well connected or less favored groups
in society of all sorts, to the favored or well-connected groups.Often they are union members, communist
party members, and often they are government workers or bureaucrats.It is no accident, for example, that
today the counties around Washington, DC are the wealthiest counties in
America.

There are
few factories in Maryland and Virginia.However, this is where most of the federal employees or bureaucrats
reside.The income of the average
government worker such as a secretary today is approximately double that of an
equivalent private sector employee if one counts all the benefits such as
health insurance and retirement pensions.This does assure some good people go into the government, but it causes
financial difficulties for the nation if it gets out of hand.

Some
government workers deserve this and much more.Some, however, are just parasites, and these are the only
ones I am referring to.I worked
in two government agencies – education and health care.In both these departments, the agency
was filled with parasites.I was
told not work after about noon.I
soon left these positions, as it was just not my style.I am told the situation is the same
today, if not worse.In a private
sector job, many of these people would be fired, but they cannot be fired due
to union rules in the federal government.

Not only
that, but the system is quite entrenched and is not likely to change any time
soon.The only solution, short
term, is to limit the size of government.This was the genius of the founders of America, as they realized that
reigning in a large federal bureaucracy is practically impossible.Sadly, presidents in the past and
particularly the present one have greatly expanded the government, setting up
50 or more new agencies that will have the same problems.

I am even
opposed to medical research by the government for this reason.That is another topic, however, that is
discussed in other articles on this website.Basically, once you set up a National Cancer Institute, for
example, or a heart disease institute, or any other, the bureaucrats want it to
continue.They will even suppress
cures for cancer to do so, and they are doing this today.This is easy to prove and discussed in
a number of well-researched books.I found out about it thirty-five years ago when I researched alternative
cancer treatments.It is the truth
and it is due to bureaucracy and little else.

It is also
very hard to stop without dismantling these seemingly humanitarian efforts,
though I know it sounds very harsh.I contend that we don’t need their research.We need to eat better and encourage private medical research
institutes, which means we need the people to have the money, not the
government agencies.

A
REPUBLIC OR A DEMOCRACY?

This is
another subtle word play that has confused many Americans.America was set up as a republic.A republic means the rule of clearly
written laws.In this system, the
laws apply to everyone, and everyone should learn the laws to stay out of
trouble.

In contrast,
England and the rest of the world were monarchies,
which is the rule of a king or queen.Other nations today are dictatorships.These are basically the exact same
idea.One strong man or woman, or
perhaps a small committee of strong men and women, have all the power.

Democracy
means
the rule of the majority.Another
word for it is mob rule.In a democracy, if 51% of the people
vote to kill you, this is acceptable.In other words, one has no individual rights in a democracy.In this sense, democracy is similar to
a monarchy or a dictatorship.It
is just the dictatorship of majorities.James Madison wrote about the tyranny of majorities and how a pure
democracy would destroy America if it were ever permitted.

A republic is a middle ground between the
rule of a king or dictator, and the rule of the mob or majorities.Only with a republic are individuals protected.In other words, only in a republic
ruled by a constitution and bill of rights, is an individual safe even if the
majority do not like him.

America was
intentionally set up as a republic because the founders of America knew that
democracies do not work.They had
witnessed the French revolution in which democracy was tried and failed
miserably.Democracies are fickle
and the people can vote one way one year, and do something totally different
the next year.There is no
stability and consistency, in addition to there being no protection for
individual rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

Yet today,
most of our leaders, teachers, media spokesmen and others all refer to America
incorrectly as a democracy.This
is horrible and confusing. America
is a constitutional republic – that is, it is ruled by a short, clear
written law – with democratically elected leaders.

SOCIAL
JUSTICE

Another word
that has been hijacked by the progressives and liberals is the word justice.It was a favorite word of the founders of America, and is
still one of the most important words in the English language.Since the corrupters could not erase
that word and its meaning, they have tagged onto it various adjectives that
reverse its meaning.

The word
justice, a key to American society, means the fair and equal treatment of all people regardless of race, color, creed or
national origin.This is sometimes
called equal justice under the law or
due process of law.

Once again,
after the Civil War in the late 1800s, a new term appeared called social
justice.This is not
justice at all. It is basically a way to avoid justice by
making excuses for some people to break the law, while forcing others to endure
even harsher punishment for the same crime.In other words, it is often the exact opposite of equal
justice under the law, just as liberalism today is the exact opposite of the
original meaning of classical liberalism.

The idea of
adding adjectives to the word justice has been expanded radically
since the 1960s of so, when the corrupters increased their power over America and
wanted to finish the job of corrupting the nation’s roots.Today we hear about environmental justice, economic justice,
and others, perhaps.They all mean
the same thing, really.They mean
that the word justice has been modified, you might say, to mean whatever those
in charge feel it should mean.Environmental justice might mean that you will lose your land and your
livelihood to save the endangered black rat.Economic justice might mean that the bureaucrats believe you
should be taxed at twice the rate of others so that more people can sit around
and watch TV on welfare every day while you work hard.This is the essence of these almost
code words for dictatorship and Marxism.It is notable and sad that our current president uses these terms quite
often, although the media and others rarely point out what they mean.

CONCLUSION

Americans,
please wake up.Stop listening to
rhetoric.Stop listening to this
president, sad to say, and to the majority in the Congress.The end of their reign is near, I
believe, if enough people wake up and learn the truth.

America is
on the verge of bankruptcy and it is exactly what the European bankers have
wanted for along time.They are
happy with bankruptcy because the nations must then borrow money from them,
which earns them interest, which is their life blood.Any nation that does not pay tribute to them in this way is
their enemy and they are still very powerful.This is the truth.It is not fantasy or conspiracy theory.

Those who
believe in a large, bloated, wasteful government have made significant inroads
into American life with programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
and thousands of others, literally.These are the biggest, however, and not coincidentally, the most
bankrupt of our social programs.These must be set aside and it will be painful, but nothing compared to
the pain that will come if the present course of bankruptcy is continued for
even another ten years.The choice
is ours.

America was
set up as a nation with a small government and more power left to the people
and the local governments.This
has slowly eroded and changed to where the federal government controls most
business activity in every sphere of our lives.With this has come not better schools, better health care
and better financial management, but far worse schools, a bankrupt and
dysfunctional health care system, a very bankrupt welfare systems and general
corruption on a scale America has never seen before.

The purpose
of this article is to remind readers that while there are powerful forces
pushing for more government intervention, it is not the answer.The answer is a return to a
constitutional republic with a small government that is restrained b the
Constitution, as it was meant to be used, and leaves the daily life of the
people to their own devices and creativity.The president speaks of creativity, but it is not something
that can be forced on the people.It is natural, when people are left alone and children are taught the
truth in school, not the lies they have learned today.This system appears to work far better
in our present world, and history proves it over and over again.If Soviet Communism or Nazi Germany
were the superior system, we would be living under it, if we were allowed to
live at all.The
free enterprise system and limited constitutional government also leads to a
much more spiritual nation.This
is another involved and long topic of discussion.Basically, slaves are less spiritually advanced than free
people, even if the free people are allowed to make some blunders.Slaves cannot make the blunders, but
they also cannot advance themselves very much.So let us rethink the past and rethink our words
carefully.The choice, once again,
is ours, while we still have it.

All
information in this article is for educational purposes only.It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.